Friday, May 23, 2008

Day 1 - Waking Up in the Middle of the Night

Our flight departed DFW at 6:05am so we spent the night at a hotel close to the airport. Our alarms went off at 3am so all six of us could get ready and be on the shuttle at 4:30. The kids thought getting up in the middle of the night was quite fun and really were troopers about it.


Checking in was interesting since we had four adults, two children, seven suitcases and eight carryons! We are so thankful that we traveled before American started charging all those fees. We grabbed a biscuit from McD's and boarded the plane. This was the kids first plane ride and they loved it! (Grant flew when he was one but of course doesn't remember it.) We had packed all kinds of things for them to do on the plane but they were content to watch the sunrise and drink their little glass of Sprite...what a treat!


We landed and got the rental car and headed to the leasing office to pick up the keys to the house. We instantly fell in love with our house and pool! The kids loved picking out which room was theirs and the adults loved that there was two king suites to choose from.


Each of the kids rooms had a small television and they thought that was so cool! We don't allow tvs in their rooms at home so this was a huge treat. Of course we found a few channels they could watch but oh how they loved sitting on their beds to watch cartoons.


We headed out to dinner and then to Downtown Disney to buy their autograph books. Grant loved the Lego store and Molly was excited to see all the princess gear. We capped off the night with a play in the fountain!

OK so that was Day One...I hope you liked the post and that it isn't too many pictures! We only took 2,784 so it is hard to choose which ones to post!

2 comments:

Peas on Earth said...

Cool house!!! So much fun! Looking forward to reading more! :-)

Genny said...

OK...just to let you know. There are NEVER too many pictures, esp. of your two adorable kids. I love the ones of them in bed with the remotes in their hands. Precious!